388 CAT, AND CANADA FLY-CATCHER. 



'Placs, Inhabits Carolina, and as high as New Tork; and migrates at 



approach of winter : probably into Jamaica j the fanae kind 

 being found there, where, from its note, it is called Whip Tom 

 Kelly. Has great affinity with the preceding : perhaps they 



Nest. differ only in fex. Makes a pendulous neft, _ ufually in apple- 



trees, and hangs it between the horizontal fork of fome bough, be- 

 neath the leaves. It is moft curioufly formed with cotton and wool, 

 lined with hair and dead grafs ; and wonderfully bound to the - 

 branches by a certain thread, like mofs, twifted round them, and 

 likewife all about the outfide of the neft. Lays five eggs, white,, 

 thinly fpotted with deep ruft-color. 



272. Cat, Cat-bird, Catejhy, 1. 66. — Laivfin, 143. — Latham, ii. jyy. 



Le Gobe-Mouche brun de Virginie, Brijfon, ii. 365. 

 Mufcicapa Carolinenfis, Lin. Syji. 328. 

 Le Moucherolle de Virginie, De Buffou, iv. 562. — Lev. Mus.— Bl. Mus. 



XPL. With a black crown : upper part of the body, wings, and tail, 



blueifh grey : the tail cuneiform, marked with numerous dufky 



bars : under fide of the body of a pale grey : vent ferruginous : legs 



• brown. Larger than a Lark. 



Placi. Inhabits New Tork and Carolina. Mews like a kitten j from which 



arofe its name. Lives among bufhes and thickets. Feeds on infedls. 



Makes the outfide of its neft with leaves and matting rufties ; the 



infide with fibres of roots. Lays a blue egg. Has a great fpirit, and 



will attack a Crow, or any large bird. Mr. Latham faw one which 



was brought from Kamt/chatka, which differed from this only in 



having no ruft-color on the vent. 



%Tx, Can AD As Mufcicapa Canadenfn, Lin. Sjft. ^z\,— Latham, ii. 354. 



Gobe-Mouche cendre de Canada, Brijfon, it. 406. tab. xxxix. — De Buffon, iv. 5-38. 

 —Cattfby, I. 60. 



• TTL. With a cinereous head, fpotted with black ; a yellow fpat 

 between the bill and the eyes; and beneath each eye a black one : 



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